Set your timer and for the next fifteen minutes and write something using these twelve words. The order of the words can be switched around as necessary. The choice of whether you write fiction or non-fiction is up to you. And don’t use all the words in the first paragraph.
- Violet
- brainy
- denim
- suspicious
- diaper
- Roger
- iconic
- outwit
- energy
- ties
- wheelchair
- city
Do not use them all in one paragraph either! Spread them out — one per paragraph (or page) would be a nice challenge.
Kate F says
I’m a twelve-year-old homschooled girl and I recently found your blog and love it! š This is my first time sharing. If you have any advice for me I would love to here it! š
Her denim jacket set her apart from everybody else. She had so many pins on the front of it you could barely tell it was a denim jacket anymore. She was brave. Probably one of the bravest people I knew. She put political pins and aethiast pins on the front of it and wore them proudly. One man in the city got into such a bad fight with her over one of these pins that he broke her leg. She now sits in a wheelchair and will have to sit in that same wheelchair for a few months. Yet she still wears that jacket.
She refuses to watch the jacket. There are violet stains on the bit of space in between her pins where her little toddler, Roger, spilled grape juice on it during a temper tantrum. I’ve never seen such a fuss over changing a little diaper.
And just when you think she has it all, you realize she’s one of the most brainy people you’ve met. She was able to outwit several pick-pocketers, she’s a straight-A student, and just got admitted to Yale University.
Though she is suspicious of everyone who goes near her after that one hassle with the broken leg, she still has tons of energy and happiness and spreads cheer around to everyone who sees her. She gives money to the poor and homeless and helps to fix the broken ties between married couples or families. Even people who don’t know her name know who she is. When she walks by (or rides by, these day) people say, “Hey. That’s that girl with the denim jacket.” It’s become so iconic that she never goes outside her front door without wearing it.
I wish I could be more like that girl with the denim jacket.